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[Justin]

Hi everyone
I get the impression that the IP-filtering thing is for security. In preferences in this part, it has "enable ip-filtering" automatically selected. But where it says "url" there is nothing written. Should there be something writtene there? What should I write there?
Thank you!
Justin

(I did check the page on this site about it, http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/IPFilter#Using_the_IP_Filter_in_aMule
but the info seemed to be from 2005, so I figure those urls might be out of date or the whole instruction may be different.)

[jere]

At least the bluetack sources are still maintained (although they are sometimes offline ATM, just try later then).
BTW: Using IP-filters never can give you full security. They are more for reducing problems with fake servers/users.

Greets jere

[Justin]

So the bluetack thing, what do I do exactly? Just put an url in that space? What url exactly?
And, is there anything else I should do?
Thank you
Justin

[jere]

Preferences - IPFiltering - Security - URL: http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/nipfilter.dat.gz

or if you´re paranoid use http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/pipfilter.dat.gz instead.
Info about the blocklists is here:
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/modules.php?name=FAQ&myfaq=yes&id_cat=6&categories=Blacklists+FAQ

You could also use an IP-Blocker like PeerGuardian from phoenixlabs.org. That would not only filter amule´s traffic but your whole system´s traffic.
But only do one of those things. Don´t download the blocklists twice and waste bluetack´s bandwith.

There exists also more security orientated P2P-software that you could use instead of amule. But I don´t know it, i love my mule ;-)

Greets
jere

[Justin]

Excellent - thank you very much! There is also there in that part of preferences, a number, "Filtering Level", and it is set at 127. Is that the right number? (I have no idea what it is about!)
Thanks again for all the help.
Justin

[jere]

The wiki tells us that it´s ok. Bluetack´s ipfilter.dat has values of 000 which are less than 127 and so are filtered.
Cheers
jre

[Justin]

Originally posted by jere
Preferences - IPFiltering - Security - URL: http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/nipfilter.dat.gz

Like you said, I put in that url under Preferences - IPFiltering - Security - URL:
That was a while ago now (2 weeks ago). But now I go to check that again and there is no url there anymore! Is that normal? Is it still working? Is it meant to disappear? I was kind of expecting it to be still there, but hey I don't know about these computer things. But I thought i had better ask you guys to make sure.

If this tells you anything, on my download page it says
"Clients on queue : 237 (23 Banned)
I mention that in case it is the ip filtering which is banning them.
Anyway, what do you think? Is it as it should be? Or should I put the url in again or something?

Thank you!
Justin

[bajun]

Hi, my aMule on Ubuntu Gutsy has crashed everytime, when I load this list (http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/pipfilter.dat.gz) into programm.
Is this impossible to load a blocklist on linux?

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